WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans It probably brings a grimace to the faces of many environmental and other lawyers when they keep having to repeat Chevron’s name favorably in court proceedings and papers these days. Chevron, of course, is the giant oil and energy company and the bête noire of environmentalists and many others everywhere because …
New Orleans You may have heard that the political primary season is now before us, with upcoming events in Iowa and New Hampshire. Both parties have these primaries, but on the Democratic side, it’s mainly a yawn with an incumbent president in the lists and no longer front these two states. On the …
Mexico City Sitting around after a great breakfast and family gathering in Mexico City on Christmas morning, conversation drifted, as it is wont to do, towards politics and the state of play in the coming US election and the prospects for Biden versus Trump. We could have talked about the upcoming election in Mexico …